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Pali Bhat

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“Right. And so Speak of great timing, right? Well, as it turns out, if you focus on users and do something that's useful for them and build a great product, the timing actually doesn't matter as much. So in the same way, I think an AI, we're going to do things that make Reddit better. It's not about simply running after the latest hot trend and sticking a chat bot in a Reddit. It's about really making sure that we use it in a thoughtful way and use it in a way that makes Reddit the Reddit experience better for our users.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just a quick thing on the NFT side, right? Yes, that was really a Reddit take on collectible avatars. You notice that we didn't focus on the tech aspect of it at all. And yes, it scaled. I think last count, we have more than 8 million wallets created by Redditors. a Super Bowl avatar release. It was one of the fastest selling. It's done well because we focused on what's useful for Redditors and what's good for our users. Not the overall market, et cetera. And we're going to take the same approach with AI as well. Even with our collective blavathar product, we weren't the first to market. In fact, you would argue that we launched after the Market had already crashed.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, not everyone scrapes Rudded today. So, this isn't about blocking everyone because not everyone is even using it today. What we are doing is thinking through what should be the policies around use of Reddit data. Because the key here is we want to make sure that our communities are protected and our users are protected because Reddit as a platform has always been privacy first and follow the platforms out there. We've focused on that from the get-go. So we are going to continue to safeguard that.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, we're open to all kinds of tools, right? Because we think it could be additive to the experience, but it has to be additive and not just spammy. Because the core of Reddit's value proposition is you get high quality content and spam just doesn't have a place in that scheme of things.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We don't see that flood yet, but it's certainly something that we're keeping our eye on because we want to make sure that we're keeping it.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Worried about Reddit being overrun by generative AI? We've seen a lot of other platforms have to ban chat GPT generated content. We've seen sci-fi writing competitions have to shut down entries because it was getting out of hand. They couldn't moderate it. Has it started to happen to you?”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Content that people want to use for training models, et cetera. The first thing that we do is looking at our own data because we've got a lot of data to look at. In terms of how we think about it, though, it's twofold. First, the real value proposition of Reddit is it's the human face of the internet. So if you want authentic human conversation and genuine interactions, you go to Reddit, right? And it's high quality and you know what you're going to get. That's something that we believe there's always going to be a need for. Will there be fun experiences that you can create with a chatbot within a subreddit that you might want to shoot the shit with? Yeah, we will... We could see things like that be part of the experience, but our focus really is making sure that our authentic experiences are always available for users.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, look, first of all, we're not scraping the rest of the internet. We have to start with just looking at our own data. We've got so much data. In fact, you know, Arguably, we are one of these sources”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Reddit does some AI work. You recently bought an AI company called Otterloo. There's a machine learning company called Spell. You've got your own capabilities and there are reasons that you would have them, right? Moderation, top of the list. You look at where the hype is in AI right now. It's all in generative models, generative AI. OpenAI just goes out and scrapes the internet, right? Other companies go out and scrape the internet, including Reddit, to build their models. Is there a thought that you should build your own model of Reddit and people should just be able to chat with a subreddit? I'm not sure that anybody should chat with our politics, but that's what your competitors are doing, right? That's where Bing's opportunity comes from is a training data set that is in part the content on Reddit.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whole set of opportunities for us. So you talked about these users who actually search on Reddit and making them engage with Reddit. It's actually the reverse. These are users on Reddit who are going and engaging. Does that make sense? So those are the users we are really looking to serve. And if we go do that. Bing's going to be around, Google's going to be around, people are going to search where they have the best search experience. We just want to make sure that the vetted search experience is great.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The reason that anyone's going to Google and typing in Reddit at the end of their keywords is because search on Reddit needs to get better. Now, if search on Reddit got better, then at least for the set of queries that users already know Reddit is good for, they would just go to Reddit and search for that content. And that would actually make sense because a lot of those users are already on Reddit. That's how they know Reddit's great for whatever they're searching for. And they're already spending time on Reddit. They're having to break out of Reddit and go to Google in order to do the search. So the most core level, we're simply trying to make that experience better for Redditors who are already on Reddit and letting them search on Reddit. And if they go do that, suddenly that opens up a”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is different paths, but it's actually something that's one step before that. We first need search on Reddit to be great.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, but specifically is the opportunity. We've acquired one Google search customer. We need them to log in and start being a Reddit user. Or is it we need to train this person to come and search Reddit on the first instance next time? Because those are different paths.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look honestly, we can't quite tell what's happening because we don't get keywords from Google. Oh, yeah, we see Google traffic for sure. Lot of people use Google to come back to it, and that's the opportunity, right? Which is”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Full into it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And look, I love the amount of innovation that's happening, especially like, you know, even from some of the larger companies like Microsoft. But we come at this from the Reddit perspective, which is the credit's about Having those really great authentic conversations that are within a community context, what that means.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A great question, but I'll start off by saying that today when the average person wants to search for something, they still go to Google. So a love that we're seeing so much interest in the search space, but I think it's important to acknowledge that any statements about the imminent death of Google search are maybe a tad premature.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have to imagine that this has come up for you, right? That Google is, people are using Google to search Reddit, and you're saying, that's got to be an opportunity. What does that opportunity actually look like for you? Is it to capture more Google audience, or is it to become a primary search destination in Reddit's own right?”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And at Reddit, we are all focused on bringing community and belonging to everyone in the world. It's that simple, right? And so because of that, we've unified, and that's a piece that consciously said, look, we should never fall into that trap.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In there somewhere. But I think that's a function of multiple teams trying to go after the same problem instead of like saying, hey, we're going to have one team that comes together and does this. And that's really... boil down to teams not necessarily being able to work with each other well and it's because it was so large the good news in reddit is that we're not large we're we're a tiny startup in comparison right but we still have to make sure that we always have that singular focus on the user and the singular focus on one mission which I think is a challenge not just for Google but any very large company because you tend to have Even though they might have one mission statement, you tend to have fractured missions once you get to the team level.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was there long enough that I always focused on that and I've always kept that. Those are two things I've taken. What I intentionally didn't take was really some of the struggles that Google had working across teams. You spoke about end different messaging products. I don't even know what the number is.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look at two things that I've always taken as a laser focus on users. And the second thing is ensuring that we're dreaming big enough. Because not enough people actually think at the scale that Google often thinks at. We'll give you an example. When StreetView originally came out, there was a lot of reports of, oh, this is going to be some toy thing that only is done for like mountain view streets is an example. Well, turns out the street view in... Really tiny streets around the world. And that scale is something that I've always appreciated about Google and something that scale thinking is something that I've taken with me. The focus on the user, which You know, you could argue that Google has lost some off.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Google has certainly has its fair share of successes and things that haven't gone so well. You referenced messaging. Yes, I think that's a pain point that everyone in Google is deeply aware of.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah It's north of 150,000 people. I don't know what the latest number is, but it's a large number of people working on Almost a bewilderingly large array of products at any given point. And so you really have these different themes that focus on different things in Google. And one of the things that I spent a lot of time at PMs at Google is it's actually the inverse. You are not the CEO of the product. You were the enabler. You help every single person in whatever way you can to make sure that the user is still at the center of what the team is focused on, right? Conceptions of this, but I think it largely comes down to each individual group than Google and how they operate, at least the way we operate is much more similar to this.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And only occasionally does really critical decisions bubble up. And once that bubbles up, it's really about the why and how we're helping our users. If we can get happy users, everything else solves itself.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Product principles by which we operate. Now, if you ask our team, everyone will tell you, hey, we're focused on making subheads the. Platform, you'll see me say that often. They'll all know that the priority for chaps of the year and the remainder of this year is simplicity. They'll all know that there is an opportunity for us in making search better on Reddit. That, and they'll know that we have to keep our platform stable. And so given that this is a very simple set of product principles so that our teams can make decisions themselves, ideally I want to make the decision at the place where they have the most information, which is with our teams.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Great question. I think the number one thing is I start with the step before the decision, which is I'm focusing on product decisions, right? Which is why are we even working on something? And it has to ladder up to making life better for at least a segment of our users. Starting from there and then laddering down to, okay, once you've figured out the why, you have to figure out what the priority is for a given area of investment. Then you have to decide how much are you actually willing to invest in it. And so a big part of what I do is making sure that we have clarity on the why and what we actually want to work on and then making a call on does it make sense for us to do or not. Most of the time, if I've done my job right by setting up the right priorities and”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Focused on the core experience. We've got a team focused on the infrastructure of Reddit because keeping Reddit running and stable and performant is an ongoing journey where we want to focus on making sure that even if you are on a really bad connection, Reddit should work great. So we are really investing in making sure all of those pieces come together. In this goal, all laddering up to this goal of making subreddit's the platform for communities and conversations online.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So Reddit says, think of it as a product area and then there's all of our business areas, right? So we've got consumer business and business includes all the things that you can imagine around sales and our ads platform. It of course includes our finance teams, it includes marketing, et cetera. Then on the consumer side, we've got our community team, we've got our engineering team, we've got our PM team, our user experience team, our data science team, IT teams. So we bring those things together on the consumer side and I lead the consumer side of the house and report in a Steve. In terms of how the team is organized, really organized around the key themes that we think about, right? So we've got a team.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Community just said, Look, your video player is broken, it sucks. And guess what we did? We actually started a new subreddit called R slash fix the video player. And we reported progress and we received bug reports from our community. And we went and made the video player experience a whole lot better. We can still make it better still. But that's how we're actually developing. We're developing with the communities. And that's just a really powerful thing. So my focus, just the user.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so then when you look at the team, we've got a great group of folks across not just PM or UX or data science or community, but we've also got a great group of engineers and we've got sales folks. We've got ideas coming in from everywhere and marketing. And so we've really got a team of folks who contribute to how we develop product. But one of the most important audiences we've got for directing our product is our users. Our users tell you when something is broken. They're the most vocal sets of users you can get, which is really, in my mind, a gift because they give us feedback all the time. We'll give you an example. One of the first things I did was post our set of things we want to do and open it up to the community for feedback. And this was last year, early last year, and shortly after it.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Enable the team of folks on the inside at Reddit who were building all of these great products. I will say that a big part of what I do is not necessarily about coming up with the best idea. It's about bringing together the team so we work on the highest priority things. By the way, that means I have multiple conversations daily with Steve Huffman, who's our CEO and co-founder, and also the person who envisioned a lot of Reddit's product as it stands today.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look at the end of the day, I think of my job as being Voice of all of our users. That includes reditors who are not just consuming but also contributing every single day. It includes our moderators who are really creating the foundation for Reddit and it includes all of those new users who haven't yet seen the magic of Reddit. And it's shocking that they haven't because this is one of the most valuable assets that you can get online and it's accessible freely to everybody, right? And so it's making Reddit much more focused on serving the needs of all of these user segments that we just referenced. And if we go do that and we continue to remain laser focused on communities and conversation, I think we'll do just great. And then it's about making sure that we continue to support and”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's extraordinarily powerful. Yes, you know, people monetize video. But if you look at what's monetized online, it still happens to be text ads on Google search. So we're very comfortable with what we're doing. We do it in a way that's That's actually additive to the experience, that helps our users and helps our advertisers. So we're comfortable with the way that we are approaching it”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, there are certainly dollars in video. We all know that, right? There's certainly lots of dollars in video as a YouTube or TikTok show every single day. But there is also a huge demand for getting access to a very intentional audience. If you think about Reddit, it's one of the most intentional audiences out there because you've chosen what community to be part of. And you've chosen the kinds of topics to engage in. And oftentimes you see this, which is if you want to know an authentic product review. You want to know what people actually think about a product, you go to Well, that happens to be something. You”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, and VB bulletin is whatever it is across a million sites that have no unified scaled monetization. Reddit has that thing. And if you want to move the needle on monetization, especially in an app for an advertising-based product like Reddit, the dollars are in video. That part of this? We've got to go capture those dollars.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whoever the CEO of V Bulletin is right now is like freaking out, right? Like there is another platform that makes forum software. It's just way more decentralized. And what I would point to from my own experience is all the car forums I'm in run on VBulletin. Our cars is great on Reddit, but if you are a fan of a particular model or a particular brand, you're almost certainly off on just some person's forum that they're running on VBulletin. The other platform that I would say is a much more community organized platform is Tumblr. We had Matt Mullenweg on just a few weeks ago. He's like, we've got to figure out how to make money. But I bought this thing for nothing from Verizon. Now we're figuring out how to make money. And they've got a whole plan to do it. But Tumblr is that thing, right? It is a community. It's built on reactions. The thing that none of those other platforms have is any kind of scaled monetization. Tumblr, like literally so little that he bought it for no dollars.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Getting people to monotonously go through video after video, right? We want you to engage and we want you to engage and contribute as well. And that's why you see contribution being such a powerful aspect of Reddit and the community being such a powerful aspect of it. And so a key part of our focus is really about making subreddits that platform for communities globally and for conversations within those communities and empowering all the things we talked about users, moderators. We talked about like those two categories of users. And then something that oftentimes people forget is new users because we've got existing users, but we've got new users coming as well. That, I think, is really the crux of it. And then the other piece that I think is very interesting is search, because I do think that we”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The last number we've shared is a little north of 50 million delis and that's very intentional because we don't want this to be an addictive platform. We want this to be a platform that's additive to you where you come in and your experiences are intentional. We are not trying to get you to spend Eighth hour of your day doom scrolling on Reddit, right? We want you to actually have a happy experience and a welcoming experience on Reddit. So we don't tend to measure ourselves in the metrics that you see a lot of other platforms do. And I think that's for a good reason, which is the experience we want to create is not about”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Still about communities and conversations. So the number one thing that I spend my time thinking about is how do we keep subreddits, the platform for communities and conversations globally. That's the focus I come in from. And the way for us to do that is simplicity, which is really making Reddit simple. Because if we made Reddit simple, I'm confident that more people would engage on Reddit every single day than they do right now. And even though the number right now is very large”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Preference towards video based on what they've been consuming, whether it's on YouTube, like in India, there's no TikTok in India, as you know, but YouTube is a very, very popular platform in India, right? And so lots of consumers are, younger consumers are used to video in those places. And it's totally fine. As a format for us to embrace that and give it to them, but give them our unique Reddit take on it. If we think about how we internally spend our time thinking about things.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, I think we've actually got a product that's incredibly resilient because it's got this unique place online, which is focused around conversations. No other platforms really laser focused on conversations like VR, right? And because of that, Platform has been very, very resilient in markets like the United States and all of the places where Reddit's already popular To give you a sense. Read it still very much a nascent platform in a place like India or a place like the Philippines or pick like a Brazil, right? And those are places where Reddit communities are just coming into being. And many of those places there's already”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Algorithm, right? People talk about machine learning and the algorithm, etc. In our case, it's all powered by the people. It's powered by realtors. And what reditors determine is great content for a particular community and then we show it to you.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's the fundamental difference in how we approach it, right? So when you think about what we are focused on, it's all about optimizing for the conversation, which is why sometimes you'll see that full featured text editing on Reddit. Now, we do want to make contribution, whether it's in text or video, much, much simpler. But you'll see us keep the focus on the conversation and not on the OG piece of content, if that makes sense, right? And that plays out in every single aspect. It's not about trying to get people to break news on Reddit. It's about getting people to have conversations on Reddit. Going back to the earlier example I gave you about world news, right? And that's a thread that we have throughout the platform, which I think is extraordinarily powerful. And the more we do this, and this goes into every aspect of how we even present content to you, it's based on essentially a people-powered.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then making it all about that piece of content. And the conversation is not really the important part. What we've done is inverted that on its head and we've said, look, the conversation is actually the content.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're talking, I'm way down here. Let's just look at the difference, or somebody like me who's unknown, just one of those people on Reddit creating, and each of our pieces of content, when we create it. It operates from the same rules. It starts with one output, our own. And then the community decides how it arises or falls, right? And I think that's incredibly different than every other platform. And second, that actually creates a platform for that conversation to occur. And that high quality conversation to occur. So if you think about some of the other platforms, whether they're focused on photos or whether they're focused on videos, ultimately what they're doing is putting the content at the original piece of content at the center”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a great question. You know, like the way we think about it is that we come with a unique perspective at Reddit, which is it's about the conversation and it's about democratized conversation. And by democratized conversation, I mean, you have a piece of content and it could be you who's Arguably one of the most well known content creators online”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we see all of that activity growing. We see gifts and comments increasing as an example. And so we're trying to make sure that we can give you a way to consume Reddit in the way you want and then engage back and contribute back to Reddit again in any of these formats. And so this is something that I expect that we'll continue to tweak and iterate on over the course of the year. But the initial step is just letting you consume in the way you choose to. And so that's what you're going to see very soon. And then after that, we'll actually start like experimenting on things like video reactions, etc. So you can do that easily as well and have a full conversation. With the same weight as you talked about as the OP.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we want to allow that to happen without saying, hey, the only way to engage with Reddit is via text. And so you'll see us experimenting a lot more with blending together video and text and letting users seamlessly transition between video and text as they choose. And by the way, there's another piece of Reddit you didn't talk about, which is images because Reddit's got... The best memes on the internet, there's a bunch of folks who just want to like look at memes. That's okay too.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're spot on, and so what we're doing is really doing multiple different aspects of this, which is, hey, can we let you? Watch some of the conversations. Are happening in text, but with a more lean back experience, so think of it as a videification, if you will, of Reddit. But we're also looking at how do you actually have video reactions and how do you actually then blend the text conversations and bring them more to the front when you're watching a video. So we're looking at picture-in-picture experiences. So there's a bunch of things that we're going to experiment with this year. And the key really is to just make sure that users can experience Reddit in the way that they're most comfortable with. In certain markets, I'll give you an example. In a place like India, people just love consuming video.”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's actually just preference, and it's not some people who want to watch there's a ton of video that's created on Reddit. And there's a set of users, including me, who will watch want to lean back experience where they're watching videos some of the time. And at other times, I'm engaging deeply on text. And so what we're doing is keeping all of the flows the exact same, which is moderators can still moderate and give you decisions with text. So it's not communities that are split into video only communities versus text-only communities. It's really just content, right? So within a given community, like an Askred, you might see videos and you might see text or a community that I'm part of or slash tennis. You see a bunch of tennis videos, but you also see text conversations. And so what we're doing is making it really seamless to flow between text and video. So you could watch a video and then”
2023-03-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT